{"id":21537,"date":"2025-08-25T05:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21537\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:21:09","slug":"filipinos-prefer-e-wallets-to-banks-as-financial-services-entry-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/21537\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipinos prefer e-wallets to banks as financial services entry point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/finance\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finance<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Report says 35% of population use digital services like GCash in country where 50% are unbanked<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20250825 Philippine e-wallet\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">GCash is the Philippines&#8217; most popular digital wallet and is backed by local conglomerate Ayala Corp. It has also received investment from Japan&#8217;s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. (Mitsubishi Corporation)<\/p>\n<p>RAMON ROYANDOYAN<\/p>\n<p>August 25, 2025 10:48 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">MANILA &#8212; More Filipinos prefer to\u00a0use e-wallet platforms to conduct\u00a0their\u00a0financial affairs than\u00a0conventional bank accounts\u00a0as fintechs become\u00a0more popular in the Southeast Asian nation, where half of the population remains unbanked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finance Report says 35% of population use digital services like GCash in country where 50% are unbanked GCash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[10005,18469,18,5593,18467,846,19,17,279,1215,18468,827,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-21537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-banks","9":"tag-e-wallets","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entry","12":"tag-filipinos","13":"tag-financial","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-mobile","17":"tag-point","18":"tag-prefer","19":"tag-services","20":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}